Tonight, Numb3rs finishes off its sixth season with episode 118, “Cause and Effect.” Will the show be back next season? A decision hasn’t been made yet but lots of people are betting that it will be cancelled.
Numb3rs follows FBI Agent Don Eppes (Rob Morrow) and his genius brother, Charlie (David Krumholtz), who helps the authorities solve cases with mathematics. The cast also features Judd Hirsch (as their father), Alimi Ballard, Dylan Bruno, Navi Rawat, Aya Sumika, and Peter MacNicol.
The series debuted in January 2005 and has long been a successful player for CBS on Friday nights. In season one, Numb3rs averaged a 3.2 rating in the 18-49 demographic and about 11.1 million viewers. They went up in season two, with an average of a 3.3 rating and 11.7 million viewers. Viewership has fallen since then however and last season, Numb3rs scored a 2.2 and 10.2 million.
This season, Numb3rs’ ratings have dropped further still — averaging a 1.8 rating and 8.26 million viewers each week. As a result of the decline in ratings, CBS (which is having a very good season) decided to cut back on the number of episodes and reduced their season order from 22 to 16 installments.
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The official reason for the decrease is that CBS had too much programming and needed space to try out new series. Next week, Numb3rs’ timeslot will be occupied by a new show, Miami Medical.
CBS has maintained that the fate of Numb3rs hasn’t been decided yet but, considering the series’ production costs and ratings, it seems fairly certain that the show is done.
In fact, ABC and FOX are betting on it. The networks have already cast Morrow and Krumholtz in new pilots.
Morrow will star in a dramatic pilot called The Whole Truth for ABC, opposite Joely Richardson. He’ll play a fiercely competitive and successful defense attorney who is close friends with his equally talented courtroom adversary (Richardson). Whole Truth is being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
Meanwhile, Krumholtz has been cast in a comedy pilot for FOX called Tax Man. The project’s being produced by Ron Howard and stars Krumholtz as an IRS Agent who’s trying to find nobility in his work. Judy Greer recently joined the cast.
If CBS does decide to bring Numb3rs back for another season, both Morrow and Krumholtz will be obligated to return. However, the other networks wouldn’t cast them in new pilots unless they felt it was a very strong possibility that Numb3rs would indeed be cancelled.
What do you think? Would you like to see Numb3rs return for a seventh season or is it time to say goodbye to the Eppes?
Image courtesy CBS.
I enjoy watching the show every week and even get up at 4:00 a.m. to watch it on TNT. PLEASE DON’T CANCEL THE SERIES.
I think its time to say good-by. Charley’s wedding was a good way to end the series.
I do worry, however, about a replacement. If the major networks follow their usual plans, we can hope for more inane juvenile potty humor , nudity, copulating, and bad language. The writers seem to be suffering from writing brain damage
Great cast and great shows— showing value of Math helping to solve crimes!
CBS will ne making huge mistake cancelling as one of very few shows on TV worth watching with good cast and scripts
i cant believe they are dropping numbers. I watch 3 shows on tv. Numbers, NCIS, and Criminal Minds. The rest of the shows just dont cut it. Why stop producing a show like Numbers. This is one of the few shows that let kids see how math can be interesting and wonderful. Please dont take Numbers off the air.
I think CBS had a great show , numbers , going with interesting plot situations with mathematical solutions . good actors especially david krumholtz which makes the show all together exciting . your replacement of Miami Medical which as a practicing physician reeks melodramatic crap doesn’t deserve the tv exposure . the actors are lame and no gestatlt of what it is like to act as a physician. of course these actors dont act like doctors they are too pretty. so if you want a happy CBS viewer on friday nights remove that piece of **** of a medical show… Read more »
Wow, a show without filth that actually requires you to have a brain to watch it…and it gets cancelled. Well, this is an indication of the steady decline of our society for worthless, mindless, filth ridden, explicit garbage laden programming. Ask the Romans how it worked out for them.
Please keep the show for the few of us left that are intelligent.
I sincerely hope they don’t cancel the show. It’s lasted for a long time, because it is a genuinely good show. All these new shows they keep “trying out” are a dime a dozen. Never mind all the bullsh*t reality shows that are on TV the past few years.
KEEP NUMB3rs! 🙁
WHY DOES CBS CONTINUE TO TAKE OFF SHOW I LOVE KEEP NUMBERS ON PLEASE
WHY ??????It’s a sucessfull movie series, intelligent, cleve, tender, hold attention.
There are not many good things in television, why cancel??? I think good ideas are almost forever.
Not only vio, also wisdom, pleasure in watch time the best possible.
i agree with everybody with their previous comments, the show is amazing, it would be just wrong if it was cancelled, i have have 5 grandchildren, and agree with the intelligence and think its awesome for our younger generation to see the possibiliies of mathmatics, and how it can relate to just about anything and everything, i wish i had a tv show like numbers when i was in school, maybe i wouldn’t have been so scared of it, and i mean that literally. finally the epps brothers are so hot!!!!! WOULD BE A REAL LET DOWN AND A STUPID… Read more »
just so CBS knows…I am watching 20/20 on ABC not the dorky medical show!!! OK I don’t know if it is dorky because I’ve never watched it. But I never missed an episode of Numbers. Sadly I can’t think of a show on CBS that I just CAN’T miss. Sometimes I watch “The Mentalist” oops I should not have said that…bye bye Mentalist.
A very good show. Put it in wrong time slot. Fri. night is not a good night for ratings.
I certainly hope they continue the series. It is one of the few intellignet tv dramas left that aren’t about crime scene forensics or legal battles. I also believe it makes mathematics “sexy” for the younger generation.
I cna’t believe that CBS would cancel Numbers and put on that medical show. I will certainly stop viewing CBS programs except for NCIS which will hopefully stay on.
i hope they dont stop making numbers, i havnt enjoyed a series so much since the first 8 CSI’s and NCIS (which i still love) got me through Iraq!! i know 4 sure the British following of the show is huge….